Jackson firefighters found the bodies of a man and a dog after extinguishing a fire over the weekend.The bodies were found early Sunday morning in the kitchen area of a house in the 500 block of Hooker Street, Chief Cleotha Sanders of the Jackson Fire Department's investigation division said.Watch the story.Family members identified the man as Lavelle Barnett Jr."Junior's dog, she's with him. Every step he made, she made. That's where she needed to be -- with him. He did love his dog," sister-in-law Judy Ainsworth said.Ainsworth said she and her family are struggling with the news of Barnett's death. He was a native of Mendenhall."This was unexpected and just a tragedy. He was a good person, a good man," Ainsworth said.An autopsy was ordered to determine a cause of death.

JACKSON, Miss. —

Jackson firefighters found the bodies of a man and a dog after extinguishing a fire over the weekend.

The bodies were found early Sunday morning in the kitchen area of a house in the 500 block of Hooker Street, Chief Cleotha Sanders of the Jackson Fire Department's investigation division said.